Connor took up the back of the crowd as everyone piled into Mickey D's. His stomach growled and grumbled in protest from having nothing from last night and all day to eat. He was pretty sure that from his slight hangover + everything else tonight + worry for his hysterical younger cousin, was making his head pound like it was ticking off to explode. Like those bombs you'd see in cartoons, were the TNT would expand slowly and then BOOM.

"I want a happy meal along with the BM!"Connor called after flopping down next to the guys. "AND I CALL DIBS ON WOODY!"Connor said, marking his toy, ignoring all the looks he got from people. He was at a "screw everything else" point.

Evelyn gritted her teeth. The woman behind the cashier looked confused as Seth added his voice to the clamour, calling out, "Jake should get Jessie. The whole Spanish Lover routine! Oh, and I want a Buzz too"

Evelyn massaged her forehead.

God damn them. We have slightly bigger things to fret over. She cleared her throat. "Um, yeah, what they said."

The woman typed furiously into the register. Evelyn glanced over and saw Jake and Luke seated silently. Jake's concussion was the only thing keeping his big mouth shut, though, she knew.

The woman walked off to give their orders to a woman through a window behind her. Evelyn leaned against the counter, rubbing her shoulder again. "If I got migraines, I'd be dying right now," she said to Ashlee.

Jake removed one arm from underneath his head, and smacked out to the side of him feeling that he hit Seth, or at lest he thought he did, he was just content knowing he hit something, and he said muffled, "I don't want a toy!"

"No kidding, I can't believe we're stuck here with five boys who act like overgrown toddlers, actually Jake is acting like the kid that got really tired at the park and passes out in his food." Ashlee said sighing her bangs fluttering above her eyebrows and falling back into place.

She rolled her eyes, "No toy for the passed out Spanish boy." She said pointing to Jake, "So Two Buzz Lightyears, and a Woody if you have one." She told the very confused worker.

James hugged Ashlee, "Thanks mom." He grinned going to sit next to Luke at their table.

Ashlee narrowed her eyes at James and watched him saunter off and stared at Evelyn, "I hate them all so much."

"Laid?" Seth asked, grinning wearily. He stifled a yawn and gave Jake a light punch on the shoulder. "How was it?"

Luke rolled his eyes and closed them, fully intending on taking a nap right there.

Evelyn drummed her fingers on the counter until the women came back with their orders. Se felt her legs shake wearily. "And we have to get them their meals. Like what the hell?"

She gave over Seth's credit card, signed for it and then picked up one tray of Big Macs. "Ash can you get one and we'll have the boys get the rest."

She walked to the table, put down the tray and said curtly, "Get the rest of them, someone." She took the seat on Jake and Luke's end of the table, and then realized that they were short one chair.

Seth got to his feet and grabbed another chair, pulling it next to hers. "There." He walked over to where Ashlee stood waiting, taking two trays from her and waltzing back.

They managed to split up the food. Luke glanced up only when Evelyn kicked his leg and placed a wrapped burger in front of him. She spared Jake that kick and instead simply tapped him on the shoulder with his meal.

Seth smirked as he picked up a Buzz toy. "This guy speaks better Spanish than Jake," he informed everyone.

Evelyn glanced up from her burger when her phone buzzed. She pulled it out, scanned her notification, caught Jake's eye and said, "You get stupider by the second. I think you should be restricted to bed-rest."

"Agreed," Seth, who was seated on Jake's other side, added. He propped his elbows on the table and shot Evelyn a meaningful smile.

Bastard, she fumed, narrowing her eyes at him. Seth had taken to pestering the hell out of her. And right now, she didn't want to acknowledge anything he was saying to her.

Here or online.

She put her phone away, taking a sip of her soda.

Seth frowned at Jake. "I'm not getting you a milkshake," he said plainly. He plucked his toy out of Jake's hand.

"Me neither," Evelyn stated firmly. Her niceness was only going to last until she stopped feeling too guilty. Which wasn't long from now.

Luke smiled halfheartedly. "Why are you people all facebooking? What's there to say that can't be said out loud?"

Evelyn's face grew hot. "Nothing." She glanced down at her phone and then shot a furious look at Seth for his comment on James. Like hell she approved of his hair color because James...

She snuck a peek at the brown-haired boy seated on Luke's other side. James looked amused as he fiddled with his phone under the table. Evelyn breathed out in relief. She'd been half afraid he'd pick up on the brief ring of truth in Seth's words. She didn't really feel like haing a "talk" with James right now. Or any time soon.

"Red, get him his motherfucking milkshake," Seth interrupted her reverie. She blinked, disoriented.

She narrowed her eyes and in reply, updated her FB status since Jake didn't seem to be hearing anything she was saying to him out loud. "Not his nursemaid, Andreasis."

"Por favor!!" Jake pouted, also while responding to the notifications he was getting on Facebook, and hoping he would remember to kill Lola later for making it public about his Taylor Swift performance.

Evelyn glanced up at Jake and shook her head. Seth was driving her crazy. She gritted her teeth and took a sip of her soda.

Luke stretched tiredly. "Say, James, you talked to Haley and your aunt lately? How are they?"

Evelyn very reluctantly glanced up at James. She looked back down at her vibrating phone and then at Jake, saying plaintively, "I'm sorry, that whole thing was a prank on Seth's part to drive you nuts."

"My aunt is good, she's been working and shes misses Haley and me like crazy she called the other day actually. Yeah Haley that egghead she's at Dartmouth doing something with psychology and like women's gender something, she got a full ride, she said when she's not busy she's planning on visiting cause she misses us, and especially her fake boyfriend." James nudged Luke grinning.

Jake put his phone away and looked up at Seth forgetting about his milkshake, "What's up?"

Evelyn jumped in, interested. "She's in feminist advocacy, I'll bet. I knew I loved that girl for more reason than because she made your life hell," she said lightly.

Luke laughed softly. "I miss Haley. She was fun as hell. Especially when she was taking digs at James."

"Or at you," Evelyn pointed out. Luke pulled at face at her.

***

Seth straightened in his seat. "My brother's gonna be in town next weekend. Along with one of my better friends from school. They wanna do something fun than just hang in the city, so I suggested we hit Niagara."

Evelyn's phone buzzed and she glanced distractedly at the screen. She typed something in, sending Jake a faint smile before she returned to her conversation with the other boys. Seth bit his lip and ignored this for the moment. He reclined back in his seat and picked a fry off Ashlee's box. "Thanks," he said, stuffing it into his mouth.

Connor glanced between them all, feeling like the oddball out of the group as he didn't really know any of them and -most- of them knew each other before they came here. He looked back at his phone, texting Alexis on and off.

Evelyn wondered if he meant her. She put down her soda and stared at her phone, where she was chatting to Ashlee and Jake. "If you want to insult me, go right ahead," she said shortly.

She blamed the soda for spiking her adrenaline. Starting a fight with James wasn't something she ever looked forward to. He always seemed to win, anyways.

***

Seth fiddled with his phone, glancing at Jake. He figured he should invite James along to the trip because James seemed like a fun guy - when he wasn't breaking people's faces. Maybe with no Evelyn around, it would be okay...

Seth decided to ask Jake first. He glanced up at Connor. "You talking to her?"

Jake kind of tuned out and was trying kind of hard not to laugh at Evelyn's story about how she was chased by some bull on her relatives farm, and figured he'd make her feel somewhat better by bringing up his unfortunate tale with a bull.

Evelyn

...you know what, it really is hard to not laugh

but i'm kind of annoyed at James right now and you'r enot helping xDDD

Seth flashed James a wink. "Next weekend is gonna be kickass," he announced, finishing Ashlee's fries. "But I think we'll have to skip Friday classes, guys." He glanced at Luke. "Blondie, you up for it?"

Evelyn was finding it hard not to laugh at Jake. But irritation at James was still fueling her so she flashed Jake another smile and then narrowed her eyes at James' amused blue ones. "Oh, I don't know. I'm a feminist. And you seem hell bent on hating my guts."

She glanced down at her phone when the chat window with Seth popped. "I saw", he had written simply. Evelyn gritted her teeth and ignored it.